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-Hi, I'm Hugh Jackman.

-And I'm Patrick Stewart.

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Welcome to The Graham Norton Show.

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CHEERING

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Oh! Oh!

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Oh, yes!

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Yes! Yes!

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Oh-ho-ho-ho!

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Oh!

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Just living in the moment, living in the moment.

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Hello! Good evening, welcome to the show.

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Yes, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart are here. Yeah!

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CHEERING

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How exciting is that? They are the stars of Logan.

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Logan, the new X-Men movie.

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In this film, an elderly,

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ailing Professor X is being cared for by Wolverine.

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Aww. Remind you of anyone? Yeah.

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LAUGHTER

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You know what?

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I'm not sure Wolverine caring for Professor X is a great idea.

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I mean, I wouldn't want those hands wiping your bum.

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"Could you...? No, don't worry."

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Hey, did everyone watch non-league Sutton play Arsenal in the FA Cup?

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CHEERING

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Really? I didn't.

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Hey, much controversy, though - basically, the Sun published

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official odds on Sutton United's reserve goalie,

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Wayne Shaw, eating a pie on camera before the end of the game.

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I mean, you do wonder, why is he the reserve goalie?

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LAUGHTER

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Yes, I see.

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So, interestingly, once the bet was official,

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Wayne was clearly seen eating a pie, and it raises a lot of questions.

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Mainly, who let him be in a football team? I mean...

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In the end, poor Wayne was forced to resign from the team. Aww.

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He said he's left the club with a heavy heart.

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I imagine it's all the cholesterol.

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So, we've got a great show for you, with some surprises along the way.

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Later we'll have the new single from the marvellous James Blunt.

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Yes. CHEERING

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But first, let's meet the stars of Logan.

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He's been captain of the Enterprise,

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the world's most powerful professor

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and is a real-life Knight of the Realm.

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Please welcome the great Sir Patrick Stewart, is here.

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CHEERING Yes! Yes!

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Come round that way. Hello, sir, so nice to see you.

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-Lovely to see you.

-You too.

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-Look at you!

-No, you! You, you! Sit down.

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That's Sir Patrick Stewart.

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And he's one of Australia's greatest exports.

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He sings, he dances, he kicks ass.

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Please welcome Wolverine himself, it's the fabulous Hugh Jackman.

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CHEERING

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Hello!

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So nice to see you.

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Come in, sit down.

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Good to see you.

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Oh!

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They're happy now. They're very happy now,

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very happy.

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-Welcome to you both.

-Where's my mum?

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My mum's out there tonight.

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Where's Mum? There's Mum.

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-Hey!

-Hey, Mum!

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Wow!

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You're a lucky man.

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Aww, and a lucky mother, it's all good.

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Welcome to our shores.

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-ENGLISH ACCENT:

-What do you mean, welcome to your shores?

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Oh, careful, careful.

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Trouble!

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Uh-oh.

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-Well, that was literally, like, a second into the show.

-Yes.

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And it's gone horribly wrong. Welcome to the SHOW, I said.

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-Don't get into it, it's too complicated.

-All right.

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I trust you, you're a mother.

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Anyway, lovely to have you here. Thank you.

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-And thank you for your son. Now...

-Yeah, thanks, Mum.

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Welcome to you both. And, now, you've been on the show a few times.

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-I didn't know you had a nickname.

-Which one do you have?

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The one beginning with G.

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Oh.

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LAUGHTER

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Rhymes with puppy.

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-Oh, Guppy.

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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Because when I sleep I move around, and someone saw me on a plane,

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who I know well, and I was sleeping on the plane.

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I said I had a great sleep. They went, "Really?

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"You were like a guppy out of water, like a fish out of water,

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"just flip flopping around." So, Guppy.

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-Have you seen him be a guppy?

-Sleeping?

-Yes.

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-I've never seen him sleep.

-All right, all right, all right.

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I'm not hiding anything.

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My mum's here. Hi, Mum!

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Restless sleeper. It's quite adorable, really.

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It's adorable, it's a little guppy.

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-Because you had nicknames growing up, didn't you?

-Yeah, I did.

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Stewpot was one of my nicknames, Stewie was another one.

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Of course.

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It's different now. I'm now...

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Well, social media, Sir Pat Stew,

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and @SirPatStew.

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-Nice plug.

-Nice.

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-Seamless.

-Followers up.

-Seamless.

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And there's another one too - Beef Stew, which I rather like.

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Very appropriate.

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LAUGHTER

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-Very appropriate.

-Thank you.

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-We'll call you Beef Stew for the rest of the show.

-Would you?

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-Yeah, Big Beefer.

-And afterwards?

-And afterwards, yes, yes.

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Excellent.

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Now, the big movie tonight is Logan.

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-Logan, it's out Wednesday 1st March.

-I like the way you said it.

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-You should be doing the voice-over.

-You should!

-I'd love to do that.

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That's great! Say it again.

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-I don't think I could keep it up for a whole trailer, though.

-Really?

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I'd drop that and it would be...

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DEEP VOICE: Logan. SQUEAKY VOICE: Logan.

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Logan. Logan.

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Wednesday 1st March, and it's one of those films...

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Because whenever one of these X-Men films comes out

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there's huge excitement, but this one, it's exciting for the audience,

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but it must be kind of tinged with sadness for both of you.

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Well, it is my last outing.

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I'm not saying... It's not your last outing.

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You're not out, right?

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I'll tell you about it in a moment, should the opportunity arise.

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I think it's arisen. This is the opportunity.

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Chat show, chatting.

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LAUGHTER

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Go.

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Hugh has been on record for some time

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that this is his last appearance as Logan, as Wolverine.

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I never thought about that, whether it was mine -

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it was another great opportunity to be in this franchise.

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But on Friday night we were in Berlin at the film festival

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and it screened there.

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Hugh and I were sitting side-by-side,

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although the other way around, and when it got into the...

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LAUGHTER

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Facing the screen, right?

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

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-No, it wasn't like that at all.

-At all, at all.

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We got into the last five or six minutes of the movie

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and it's a very emotional ending,

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and I saw Hugh just do this a little bit and I suddenly realised,

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oh, Lord, I need to do the same thing.

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And then this is what I felt.

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Oh, really? Aww.

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I swear, that was what happened, and Hugh held my hand.

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And of course, I was done.

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I was finished and just weeping and sobbing.

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But then we had to wait for the credits to roll

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before we could go up on stage and be introduced,

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and while the credits were rolling,

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because they are long in these movies, I realised,

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if this is the end, there is no more perfect and beautiful way

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to say au revoir, goodbye, adios,

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than what has just happened.

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So I think it's the end for me too.

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-What? Wow, really?

-Yeah.

-Really?

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Why would I want to do another go at this

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after what we've done in this movie?

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Because this movie is really, really good, and Hugh is amazing in it.

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-It is terrific.

-Oh, that is...

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-Are you going to show something?

-Don't worry, we'll get to that bit.

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-You're not putting it off?

-Oh, no, we've got clips and all sorts.

-OK.

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-Yeah, yeah.

-OK.

-We prepared.

-Of course.

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I've got emotional... Sorry to interrupt, sorry.

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No, but it is a very emotional film, it is.

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Yeah, and I think, as we made it, as we prepared it,

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James Mangold, the film-maker, who wrote it as well,

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for two and a half years, and Patrick was there,

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there was a small band of real believers...

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I thought the studio would say no, to be honest, but they didn't.

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Emma and Steve said yes and it was...

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We made this film that was deeply personal

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and a very different kind of X-Men film.

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I kind of want people to go and see it who have never seen

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an X-Men film, never seen the comic book movie.

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We wanted to make a movie that was true to that character.

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As I sat there in Berlin, I did,

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I reached and I grabbed Patrick's hand.

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A, because it was 17 years since we first started playing them.

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I mean, you go to school for 12 years -

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that's a long time at school, right?

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This is 17 years and I couldn't quite believe that there I was,

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sitting next to one of my heroes.

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And I'm not just saying that to be nice,

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I was at drama school watching the John Barton

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How To Play Shakespeare tapes with Patrick playing Shylock,

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and I thought, "One day I want to work with him," and there I was.

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It was a dream come true and it was a very...

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I realised how lucky I am and will forever be grateful to be

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in this movie, and I was very emotional.

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Why now, though? Because you could have...

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Because Wolverine is such a popular character, won't you feel

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just gutted if they recast and someone else is playing Wolverine?

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I think I'll be fine. I mean, look, if I wake up one day

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and I find out Daniel Day-Lewis is playing the part

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and he wins the Oscar, I'm going to be a little bit upset, all right?

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And everyone says, "Wow, now THAT is Wolverine."

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-Curses!

-It won't happen.

-Curses!

-It won't happen.

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I'll tell you what,

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-let's have a taste of what to expect in the movie.

-At last!

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You're in it, you'll love it, you'll love it.

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You're excellent in this.

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# And you could have it all

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# My empire of dirt

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# I will let you down

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# I will make you hurt

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# I would keep myself

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# I would find a way. #

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Logan, you still have time.

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APPLAUSE Even that's emotional.

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So good.

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APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH

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No, but even that isn't like a normal kind of, you know,

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Marvel trailer. It's fantastic. It's beautiful.

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It's not, it's very different and I remember being there when

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-they first played us that trailer, you remember?

-Oh, yeah.

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With that Johnny Cash song, which just seemed so perfect.

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And, of course, our director did Walk The Line,

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so he didn't know they were going to use that Johnny Cash song.

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But it is perfect. We're very proud of it and...yeah.

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So, tell us about what the last film is, a taste of what happens.

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Well, they've even given a date for this one.

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It's 2029, so it's 12 years ahead of now.

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We are a little older.

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In my case, only a little older.

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Charles is 90, 90-ish, thereabouts.

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He's frail, weak,

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defenceless, troubled,

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aggressive, hostile,

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confused, and most importantly...

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-Funny.

-Oh, funny occasionally.

-Funny.

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-Yeah, yeah, funny. Thank you for that.

-Yeah.

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-And might I add, sexy.

-Ooh.

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I'm just saying. I'm throwing them out there.

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Beef Stew, don't look at me that way, Beef Stew!

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No, the last adjective I was going to add was...

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LAUGHTER

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-Juicy.

-No!

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OK, juicy. And very, very dangerous.

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He has lost control of this power that he has in his brain

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and so this guy has got a day-time and night-time job

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trying to make a little bit of money,

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living in this part of desert northern Mexico,

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in order to pay for my medications.

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Is that familiar to anybody at all?

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That's the kind of movie this is, with storylines like that.

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Normally when you see a film,

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the film stars in the film look even better than they do in real life.

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LAUGHTER

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Not being rude...

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-You both look a bit rough around the edges in this film.

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

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I mean, Patrick kind of said it was quite shocking,

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-because you'd lost 21 pounds.

-Uh-huh.

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And I remember you telling me you were this...

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Like, you were, at 14, the same weight you've been your entire life.

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-Uh-huh.

-And I spent about six hours every morning in make-up,

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you know, to get...

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No, it was literally like six seconds, get out of the car.

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I said, "I'll go to make up?

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They're like, "You're good. Let's go."

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No, we've got to say, though, just in case people are worried,

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when Wolverine takes his shirt off,

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you're still in quite the condition.

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CHEERING

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For people who are kind of going,

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"Oh, yeah, I'll go to the gym, I'll look like that,"

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describe the lead-up to a day when you know

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you're filming a shirt-off scene.

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Well, yeah, there's a thing called dehydration.

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So, do not try this at home, but you can lose up to ten pounds,

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which is four kilos of weight on your surface.

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So, all of this under here is water.

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So you drink a lot of water for a week,

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getting up to maybe ten litres a day,

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and then you stop about 30 hours before you film.

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And so, for the next ten hours,

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you're just peeing constantly because you've been drinking,

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so your body's used to it, and then all this water is going.

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You have, like, half a baked potato

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and a few other things that suck water from the inside.

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And then it's kind of not fun,

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but the results end up being pretty good.

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Again, do not try this at home.

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Unless you're getting married next weekend.

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-Use it for the final push for the dress.

-Yeah.

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But you will have a massive headache throughout the entire wedding.

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Do you just feel awful? You must feel terrible.

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-You feel bad and you have a headache.

-Tell them about the meals.

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-You know, you standing on the set...

-You eat every two hours...

-A meal!

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Like, 6,500 calories a day. So, for me, it was a lot.

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And, Mum, not your cooking.

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-Like, steamed chicken and steamed broccoli.

-That was it.

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-Not like your beautiful stuff.

-But then...

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-So, that's how you did it in a film.

-Yes.

-Patrick, how did you do...?

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You're not even in a film in this picture.

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This is just you hanging out.

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What?!

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Come on! Look at you!

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That's last year, right?

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CHEERING

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Do you just gym? Do you gym all the time?

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No, sir, I do not.

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I just think clean thoughts and...

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LAUGHTER

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I'm embarrassed about that photograph.

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The whole purpose of the photograph was that pink motif.

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The shoes, the shorts, the cocktail.

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It doesn't go with Beef Stew.

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It doesn't suggest Beef Stew.

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-But, no, you're in fantastic condition.

-Thank you.

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-Is it yoga?

-No. You know, I was born...

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Thank you, my mother and father,

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they gave me great skin and they gave me this...

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But you did do yoga. Maybe over the years you...

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No, no, no, I tried it, it was not for me.

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-Right.

-It hurt.

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LAUGHTER Tell us about it.

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And this is weird.

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And don't answer this question if you don't want to, Patrick,

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but I have...

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I don't know why you brought this up, but I did hear you discuss,

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you had an extraordinary disagreement

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with your wife about yourself.

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-Do you know what I'm talking about?

-By myself you mean...?

-Yes.

-Yeah.

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Ooh.

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Er...

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-Yes.

-Listen, do you know this story?

-I do not know this story.

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-Listen with interest.

-Well...

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One night, as you do, we were talking about stuff and...

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And I just happened to mention...

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And of course, being circumcised, I said...

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LAUGHTER

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They were chatting. They're married! They're married, they're allowed.

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And she said...

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She said, "You're not circumcised."

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I said, "What do you mean? "You've only known me a few..."

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All my life, I remember my mother telling me why,

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because it was fashionable at the time.

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She said, "You're not circumcised." I said, "That's ridiculous!

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"I should know if I'm circumcised. Of course I am.

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"End of conversation."

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But the next day, I happened to be seeing my doctor for...

0:16:380:16:42

Are you OK?

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-I was seeing my doctor for my annual physical.

-Of course.

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So, while he was down there...

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LAUGHTER

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-I said...

-"Excuse me, Doctor."

-"Oh, by the way, Irv,

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"my wife and I had a little disagreement.

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"I am circumcised, aren't I? Because she says I'm not."

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And he goes...

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"Not."

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LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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I said, "No, no, it's not possible!"

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So he looked down again and he said,

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"Hey, I'm Jewish, I know the difference."

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-That is a bizarre story.

-Too much information.

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I have grandchildren!

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LAUGHTER

0:17:420:17:44

You're going to have to change your Facebook status now.

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Oh, yes, no more Beef Stew.

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Well, there's MORE Beef Stew.

0:17:550:17:57

LAUGHTER

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APPLAUSE

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Oh, dear.

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But now, what is lovely,

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because acting is a kind of transient thing -

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you meet people and then you don't.

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But one of the lovely things that came out of these films

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is your friendship with Ian McKellen.

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-It did.

-But you must have known Ian McKellen before the films.

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Oh, yes, since I was a teenager.

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He's two years older than me, by the way.

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He said something the other day, really,

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along with what he was just saying, one of the nicest things ever.

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He said, "Yeah, Patrick Stewart and I,

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"I really feel that last I have a brother."

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Aww! That's adorable.

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He might have said father, of course.

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You have kind of a theory about the way he speaks,

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the way Ian McKellen speaks.

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-Well, we did an animated movie together as well as these.

-You did?

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Yeah. It was called Flushed Away. I really loved...

0:18:550:18:58

My son often says, "Why was there no sequel to that?"

0:18:580:19:01

And I say, "Because it lost a lot of money," but...

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I always remember he played the Toad.

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"Rita. Hello, Rita."

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And I was always like, he can get, like,

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consonants where there's nothing.

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Like, he can make a one-syllable word into 20.

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-OK, here's a test for you, here's a test for you.

-Yes.

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-If you shut your eyes.

-Yes.

-Shut your eyes, OK.

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Is this the real voice of Ian McKellen or is it somebody

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-doing Ian McKellen?

-OK.

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Graham, is there room for another mutant on that sofa of yours?

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-That's real.

-That's him.

-That was real, yeah.

-Yes, it is.

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Come out, Ian McKellen!

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CHEERING

0:19:360:19:38

-Are you all right?

-It's so good to see you.

0:19:450:19:47

Hello, darling. Hi. Lovely to see you.

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Have a seat, have a seat. Have a seat.

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My two brothers.

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My three brothers.

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I should just explain why I'm dressed as I am.

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I have just come down from Scotland and it took longer to get

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from City Airport to us than it took to go from Edinburgh

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to City Airport, so I'm still in the clothes I was wearing up there.

0:20:200:20:24

Well, you're very welcome. You look lovely.

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-Do you recognise this?

-Yes, I think I do.

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-This is Magneto's coat.

-Is it really?

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-Yeah, they gave it to me. Do you remember the red?

-Yeah.

-Yes.

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Look at it now!

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Oh, that is so good!

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So I'm just hoping someone's watching,

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a needle and thread can help me.

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-Look, I think we can drape it somewhere.

-There's more.

0:20:430:20:46

My mum can do that, she's very good with that stuff.

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No, you're not working tonight. I refuse, I refuse.

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I'll drape it there, I'll drape it there.

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Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down.

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You're very welcome, you're very welcome.

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-I've got more to tell you about my clothes!

-Please do, please do.

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I was at Kirkcaldy High School,

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telling them to be nice to each other.

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I go around schools doing that.

0:21:050:21:07

-Gordon...

-Ramsay?

-No.

0:21:070:21:10

-Brown?

-Grey.

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The Prime Minister, yes, he'd been in that school.

0:21:130:21:15

And they gave me their school tie and I said, "Well, I'm going

0:21:150:21:18

"on the Graham Norton show and I'll wear the tie," so I had to wear it,

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-so that's for Kirkcaldy.

-Nice.

-They also gave me these...

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LAUGHTER

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-Do you know what these are?

-Shoelaces.

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But they're rainbow coloured.

0:21:290:21:30

Are they footballer anti-bullying?

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They are, and footballers who approve of gay people coming out

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and being honest about themselves wear these to show their support.

0:21:350:21:38

So here we are, I'm wearing them.

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CHEERING

0:21:400:21:42

Well, it's lovely to have you here. It's a lovely surprise.

0:21:440:21:46

Now, here's the thing, though, because the guys are talking

0:21:470:21:50

about this movie, Logan, which is part of the X-Men franchise...

0:21:500:21:53

I've never heard of it, to tell you the truth.

0:21:530:21:55

How come you're not in it?

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Do you know? I think when you get to my age,

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you want to leave aside those tired old franchises.

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Move on to something fresh.

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I sometimes cry myself to sleep.

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I simply don't know how I... I don't know why I'm not in it, darlings!

0:22:160:22:20

-Um... When...

-Could you not do another one?

0:22:230:22:26

Leave this one out.

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It's time you died. And I tell you...

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LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:22:330:22:35

I remember, Professor X, you did die in one of the movies.

0:22:370:22:41

-Yeah, I was vaporised.

-But he's resurrected.

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Yeah, but that's nothing.

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It was only at the level of DNA that he was vaporised.

0:22:450:22:48

-Of course, he can come back together.

-Oh, I see.

0:22:480:22:50

-Come on.

-Yeah, yeah.

-I remember...

0:22:500:22:52

Can I just say - because I wanted to say thank you to all these years,

0:22:520:22:56

I'm sure I have, I hope I have.

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I was very nervous on that first film. I started three weeks in.

0:22:580:23:01

-It was my first movie.

-Yes, I know.

0:23:010:23:03

And there was a lot going on.

0:23:030:23:05

And there was a lot of people and I remember you

0:23:050:23:07

pulling me aside and saying,

0:23:070:23:09

"This, at times, is going to feel uncomfortable,

0:23:090:23:11

"it's going to feel overwhelming,

0:23:110:23:13

"but you're in good hands and everything's going to be OK."

0:23:130:23:15

And you, both of you, were such heroes of mine, I was a little

0:23:150:23:18

starstruck, but it was the first day I met you and you saying that

0:23:180:23:22

-to me, I never ever forgot it.

-Don't think I was in love with you.

0:23:220:23:25

-And then we kissed.

-I'd seen you at the National Theatre in a musical.

0:23:280:23:32

What was it?

0:23:320:23:34

It was Oklahoma!

0:23:340:23:36

# Oh, what a beautiful morning! #

0:23:360:23:37

-You know.

-I took your dressing room straight after you.

0:23:370:23:40

-Did you?

-I took a photo.

0:23:400:23:42

Did I leave anything behind?

0:23:430:23:46

-A surprise.

-Had I known it was you, I would have done.

0:23:460:23:50

-This is a very saucy show.

-It certainly is!

0:23:530:23:56

Patrick was talking before you came out about that you'd sort of

0:23:560:24:00

known each other over the years,

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but were you kind of rivals in your careers or not?

0:24:020:24:06

No, only recently.

0:24:060:24:08

I've never thought of having rivals.

0:24:090:24:11

Everyone gets on with what they can do.

0:24:110:24:13

And there's plenty of room for everybody.

0:24:130:24:15

But sometimes I think I am Patrick Stewart, except that he's Yorkshire.

0:24:150:24:20

I'm sorry about that, but you are.

0:24:200:24:23

-Lancastrian.

-I'm from Lancashire.

0:24:230:24:26

But our interests are the same, as far as career's concerned.

0:24:260:24:30

We started with the RSC, we wanted to do Shakespeare,

0:24:300:24:33

wanted to be taken seriously as actors.

0:24:330:24:35

But given the chance of another sort of work,

0:24:350:24:38

a very popular sort of work, of course, we leapt at it and

0:24:380:24:41

-couldn't quite believe our luck that we'd been asked.

-Absolutely.

0:24:410:24:45

Or in your case, asked back again and again.

0:24:450:24:48

So young and so bitter!

0:24:500:24:52

But I heard you talking about Ian and talking about how you

0:24:540:24:57

-were intimidated by his beauty.

-Yes.

0:24:570:25:00

Well... Please tell me you have a photograph.

0:25:000:25:04

This was a long time ago.

0:25:040:25:06

-Gorgeous!

-I think we do have a photograph.

0:25:060:25:08

We've got a photograph of Ian as Coriolanus.

0:25:080:25:10

-Here you are.

-Look at that! Come on!

-My Lord!

0:25:100:25:14

Wolverine, eat your heart out!

0:25:140:25:17

Having said that, you do look great there, Ian,

0:25:170:25:19

but check out Patrick Stewart.

0:25:190:25:22

-AUDIENCE:

-Whoo!

0:25:220:25:24

-Yeah.

-Well, you know.

-You know?

0:25:240:25:26

This is what you've got to look forward to.

0:25:280:25:30

I'll tell you something, you've been hearing about this amazing body.

0:25:330:25:38

It is absolutely amazing.

0:25:380:25:41

And a privilege to be so close.

0:25:410:25:43

But Magneto, the character I used to play in this tired old franchise,

0:25:450:25:52

-was also pretty muscular, wasn't he?

-Yeah.

0:25:520:25:54

-He was.

-And there, you can see.

0:25:540:25:57

But the trick is that I am wearing underneath my costume a suit which

0:25:570:26:02

is sculpted to look as if I've put all the effort as he has into it?

0:26:020:26:06

-What?!

-You knew that.

0:26:060:26:07

-Did you know that?

-No. I was told - you've got to work out.

0:26:070:26:10

McKellen's working out, you've got to work out.

0:26:100:26:13

I just put on the suit and I tell you what, I've still got it at home.

0:26:130:26:17

I do wear on occasion.

0:26:180:26:19

Why have you two got drinks and I don't?

0:26:210:26:24

-Yeah, that's a good point.

-Would you like a drink?

0:26:240:26:27

-We've got red wine, if you want it.

-Red wine.

-Red wine, red wine.

0:26:270:26:30

Oh, look at that.

0:26:300:26:31

-Psychic!

-Oh, Lord!

-Water and red wine.

0:26:310:26:34

-Thank you.

-APPLAUSE

0:26:340:26:37

Let's just shout out drinks and see if they show up.

0:26:370:26:41

Any nibbles?

0:26:410:26:42

Rack of lamb?

0:26:430:26:45

-Oh, we're doing...

-Cheers, darling.

-Cheers.

0:26:450:26:48

-Cheers, cheers.

-It's lovely to see you.

-Lovely to see you.

0:26:480:26:51

Oh, look. People.

0:26:510:26:54

What's all this about you being circumcised?

0:26:540:26:57

-Come on, you shared a dressing room!

-I know.

-You know.

0:27:000:27:03

So, you worked together. You worked together on Broadway.

0:27:030:27:06

-You did two plays together on Broadway.

-They were brilliant.

0:27:060:27:09

-Oh, yes.

-Yes.

0:27:090:27:12

You know, there are not many plays where there are two wonderful

0:27:120:27:17

parts for actors of the same age.

0:27:170:27:20

So, you can go through your life never working with the people

0:27:200:27:24

you admire and the people who you have an awful lot in common with.

0:27:240:27:27

Shakespeare's not bad, to that extent.

0:27:270:27:29

But there are a few plays and one of them is Waiting For Godot,

0:27:290:27:32

there are two wonderful parts for people of the same age.

0:27:320:27:35

And another one is No Man's Land by Harold Pinter

0:27:350:27:37

and we've done them both.

0:27:370:27:39

And we've just finished doing No Man's Land in London.

0:27:390:27:42

Though don't despair, if you missed it, you can catch on NT Live.

0:27:420:27:45

-They record a performance.

-Oh, the cinema.

-They show it in cinemas.

0:27:450:27:50

-I have just had an idea.

-What?

0:27:500:27:54

This is awesome.

0:27:540:27:55

LAUGHTER

0:27:550:27:58

For some time now, I have been teasing Hugh but getting more

0:27:580:28:03

and more serious about a theatre job we might do together.

0:28:030:28:07

-Oh?

-I have been saying to this man for a long time,

0:28:070:28:10

he should play Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd.

0:28:100:28:13

It is as if the role might have been written for him.

0:28:130:28:16

And I add a rider that if he plays Sweeney Todd, I will,

0:28:160:28:20

for a limited run, play the Judge, which is a two scene role,

0:28:200:28:25

but with two numbers, including a duet between the two of them.

0:28:250:28:29

Who should play Mrs Lovett?

0:28:290:28:32

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:28:320:28:36

That is a good idea. CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

0:28:360:28:38

# Have a little priest

0:28:380:28:40

# Have a bit of priest... #

0:28:400:28:41

-That's a good idea.

-That's a really good idea!

0:28:430:28:47

And there's a nice juvenile part

0:28:470:28:50

-that Eddie Redmayne played in the movie.

-Yeah.

0:28:500:28:52

I could play a pie.

0:28:560:28:57

We very briefly must mention Beauty and the Beast, Ian's new film.

0:28:590:29:03

It's in cinemas from the 17th of March and it's not just you,

0:29:030:29:06

it's fabulous people -

0:29:060:29:07

Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Emma Thompson, Ewan McGregor.

0:29:070:29:11

And who are you in the world of Beauty and the Beast?

0:29:110:29:13

Well, in my view, the film should be called Beauty and the Clock.

0:29:130:29:17

Does that give you a clue?

0:29:190:29:22

-I play Cogsworth the Clock.

-If it ain't BAROQUE, don't fix it.

0:29:220:29:26

There we go.

0:29:260:29:27

But you know, he is a great song and dance man.

0:29:270:29:31

That's how I first saw Hugh, on stage at the National Theatre,

0:29:310:29:35

singing his heart out.

0:29:350:29:37

And then he did a show on Broadway,

0:29:370:29:40

-which hasn't yet come to England, Boy From Oz.

-Yeah.

0:29:400:29:45

-And you've got a one-man show when you sing and dance.

-Mm.

0:29:450:29:48

Now, Patrick does a bit of singing.

0:29:480:29:50

You made a lovely record of your version of some standards,

0:29:500:29:53

haven't you, with Sunny?

0:29:530:29:55

And I thought it was time that I got into the musical side

0:29:550:29:59

-of the business.

-Yes!

-You're singing!

0:29:590:30:01

Well, yes.

0:30:010:30:02

-I think we've got a pic. There. This is you.

-Yes, that's me.

0:30:030:30:07

-LAUGHTER

-I voice that clock.

-Yes.

0:30:070:30:11

And at the end, I'm not giving away any secrets, I think,

0:30:110:30:14

-when the prince stops being a beast...

-The spell thing.

0:30:140:30:17

-I come back as myself and that's when you see me...

-Ah!

0:30:170:30:22

-Got it!

-But very briefly.

0:30:220:30:24

OK, OK.

0:30:240:30:25

-We do have a little taster. This features your clock in action.

-Oh!

0:30:250:30:29

LAUGHTER

0:30:290:30:31

Look out for it. There's two hands on it.

0:30:310:30:34

The jokes write themselves.

0:30:370:30:40

Here's a taste of Beauty and the Beast.

0:30:400:30:42

I've come for my father.

0:30:450:30:48

He's a thief.

0:30:480:30:49

Come into the light.

0:30:490:30:51

I will escape, I promise.

0:30:530:30:54

-Look! A girl!

-Who said that?

-Hello!

0:30:570:31:00

-You can talk?

-Well, of course. It's all he ever does.

0:31:000:31:04

How lovely to make your acquaintance.

0:31:060:31:08

Want to see me do a trick?

0:31:080:31:10

What happens when the last petal falls?

0:31:110:31:14

The master remains a beast forever.

0:31:140:31:17

And we become antiques.

0:31:170:31:18

Oh, very good! CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

0:31:200:31:23

You were talking about Hugh, but you've been in it.

0:31:230:31:28

That was one of my first shows.

0:31:280:31:29

-My first theatre show was Beauty and the Beast.

-Stage show?

-Gaston.

0:31:290:31:32

There he is as Gaston.

0:31:320:31:34

# Just one dream

0:31:350:31:37

# Nearly all your life

0:31:370:31:39

# Hoping, scheming, just one theme

0:31:390:31:41

# Will you be my wife? #

0:31:410:31:44

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE Beautiful!

0:31:440:31:46

And, Patrick, now, you are getting into the animation world as well.

0:31:520:31:57

It's just been announced, your exciting new casting.

0:31:570:31:59

Yes.

0:31:590:32:01

-Tell us who you're playing.

-Why are you laughing?

0:32:010:32:04

Because I know what the answer is.

0:32:040:32:06

Well, there is to be an Emoji movie.

0:32:070:32:11

Yes, Patrick.

0:32:120:32:14

And among the top three most popular emojis of all time is one

0:32:140:32:20

that I will play and his name is...

0:32:200:32:24

Poop.

0:32:240:32:25

-There he is.

-LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:32:280:32:32

Wait for this, it's Professor X-crement.

0:32:320:32:34

-Oh, yes!

-Not my own.

0:32:370:32:39

-Have you got the voice for Poop yet?

-Yes, he sounds rather like this.

0:32:390:32:43

He's quite grand and very well spoken.

0:32:430:32:45

Very, very, very English, which I think is a clever idea. Not mine!

0:32:450:32:49

But the producer's, that he should be very English.

0:32:490:32:53

Listen, we're about to have music.

0:32:530:32:54

But very quickly, it is Oscars weekend this weekend.

0:32:540:32:58

And, Ian, would you mind telling us the story about when you were

0:32:580:33:02

nominated for Gandalf...?

0:33:020:33:05

-Oh, yes.

-And you had the beads, yes.

0:33:050:33:08

Aw!

0:33:080:33:09

Well, they weren't beads.

0:33:100:33:12

In New Zealand, where we filmed Lord of the Rings...

0:33:140:33:17

AUDIENCE WHOOP

0:33:170:33:19

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

0:33:190:33:21

If you're lucky, when you leave, you're given a piece of green stone,

0:33:210:33:25

carved, and you wear it often enough and your chances are that

0:33:250:33:28

you'll get back to New Zealand. That's the idea.

0:33:280:33:31

And it'll bring you a bit of luck.

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So, when those films were nominated for something like 20 Oscars

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on that night, everybody from New Zealand was wearing their

0:33:370:33:41

green stone, their Pounamu, they're called.

0:33:410:33:44

And when we're on the red carpet, going in to the ceremony,

0:33:440:33:47

I met Maggie Smith.

0:33:470:33:49

-AS MAGGIE:

-Hello, what are you here for?

0:33:490:33:51

LAUGHTER

0:33:510:33:54

I said, "Well, Lord of the Rings."

0:33:560:33:58

"Oh, yes," she said. "What's that round your neck?"

0:33:580:34:00

I said, "It's my Pounamu, Maggie."

0:34:000:34:03

"Oh, your Pounamu. What's that for?"

0:34:030:34:05

I said, "Well, if I wear it, it'll bring me luck."

0:34:050:34:08

"Oh, very nice."

0:34:080:34:10

At we went our separate ways and it lasts for three and a half

0:34:110:34:14

-or four hours. You know, don't you?

-Oh, yeah.

0:34:140:34:17

God, you sit there and sit there.

0:34:170:34:18

And at the end, of course, everyone else wins the Oscar apart from you.

0:34:180:34:21

And a bit dejected, you're coming out,

0:34:210:34:23

looking forward to a drink and you bump into Maggie Smith

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and she points at you and she says,

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"Didn't work, did it?"

0:34:270:34:29

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

0:34:290:34:33

OK, it is time for music. Since his breakthrough single

0:34:370:34:40

You're Beautiful went straight to number one,

0:34:400:34:42

he's sold over 20 million albums worldwide.

0:34:420:34:46

Performing his new single, Love Me Better, it's James Blunt, everybody!

0:34:460:34:50

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

0:34:500:34:53

# People say the meanest things

0:35:040:35:06

# Yeah, I've been called a dick

0:35:090:35:11

# I've been called so many things

0:35:110:35:14

# And I know I've done some shit that I admit deserves it but that

0:35:140:35:19

# That don't mean it doesn't sting

0:35:190:35:22

# Saw you standing outside a bar

0:35:250:35:28

# Would have said you're beautiful but I've used that line before

0:35:300:35:34

# Now I've had my share of shallow nights

0:35:350:35:38

# Cos I was scared to get it right

0:35:380:35:41

# So I was hanging with whoever

0:35:410:35:44

# But, baby, then you

0:35:440:35:46

# You love, love, love me, love me better

0:35:460:35:51

# You love, love, love me, love me better

0:35:510:35:56

# There've been times I gave myself

0:35:560:35:58

# To someone else, to someone lesser than you

0:35:580:36:02

# Love, love, love me, love me better

0:36:020:36:06

# Love me

0:36:110:36:13

# Love me better

0:36:160:36:18

# Love me

0:36:220:36:23

# When I met you I was treading water

0:36:290:36:31

# And, baby, I know you know I got an eye that wanders

0:36:340:36:39

# But right now in this car that we're driving to your sister's

0:36:390:36:44

# All I'm lookin' for is something that's forever

0:36:440:36:49

# But, baby, then you

0:36:490:36:50

# You love, love, love me, love me better

0:36:500:36:54

# You love, love, love me, love me better

0:36:540:36:59

# There've been people that I've loved before

0:36:590:37:03

# But they were something lesser, cos you

0:37:030:37:06

# Love, love, love me, love me better

0:37:060:37:10

# Love me

0:37:150:37:17

# Love me better

0:37:200:37:22

# Love me

0:37:260:37:27

# Love me better

0:37:310:37:33

# People say the meanest things

0:37:330:37:36

# Yeah, but truth be told, I don't care what they think

0:37:390:37:42

# I got someone who is lying in my bed right next to me

0:37:430:37:48

# Yeah, she love, love, loves me

0:37:480:37:51

# Love, love, loves me

0:37:510:37:55

# Loves me better

0:37:550:37:56

# Loves me

0:38:010:38:02

# Loves me better

0:38:060:38:07

# Loves me

0:38:120:38:13

# Loves me better

0:38:160:38:17

# There's been times I gave myself

0:38:170:38:20

# To someone else, to someone lesser than you

0:38:200:38:23

# Love, love, love me

0:38:230:38:26

# Love me better. #

0:38:260:38:29

CHEERS AND APPLAUSE

0:38:290:38:31

James Blunt, everybody! Great job!

0:38:330:38:36

Well done, sir, lovely to see you.

0:38:360:38:40

Come in, say hello to everybody.

0:38:400:38:43

Patrick, Ian, Hugh.

0:38:430:38:45

Nice to see you.

0:38:450:38:47

-How are you?

-Awesome.

0:38:480:38:50

-There you go. Have a seat, do.

-Thank you so much.

-Yeah, well done, you.

0:38:500:38:53

And that's off your new album, The Afterlove,

0:38:530:38:56

-which is released on the 24th of March.

-Yes, thank you for the plug.

0:38:560:39:00

Well, you know, that's why you're here.

0:39:000:39:02

So, that song is about kind of some of the hate

0:39:040:39:08

you've received over the years.

0:39:080:39:10

Yeah, it's a little bit about how deeply unpopular I am,

0:39:100:39:14

but it doesn't matter, because my wife loves me.

0:39:140:39:16

-AUDIENCE:

-Awww!

0:39:160:39:18

-But also...

-Don't say "awww" for me, say "awww" for her, poor girl!

0:39:180:39:21

No, but you have turned it into a strength,

0:39:210:39:24

-the way that people are rude about you.

-Yeah, I mess around, don't I?

0:39:240:39:27

-I mess around online, on Twitter, abusing myself before people...

-Yes.

0:39:270:39:32

-Have you guys...? Do you follow him on Twitter?

-No.

0:39:320:39:34

You should, he's very good. We've got some examples of James's tweets.

0:39:340:39:39

APPLAUSE

0:39:460:39:48

I like this one.

0:39:580:39:59

-Do you know what that means?

-No, I have no idea.

0:40:060:40:09

This is so weird.

0:40:160:40:17

Very good!

0:40:310:40:32

-APPLAUSE

-Thank you.

0:40:320:40:35

-Now, Hugh Jackman...

-Yes.

0:40:350:40:37

You share something with James Blunt

0:40:370:40:40

in that you have both done

0:40:400:40:41

one of the most difficult jobs in showbusiness -

0:40:410:40:44

you have both performed at an Australian sporting event.

0:40:440:40:49

Oh, wow! Oh, yes, you did...

0:40:490:40:51

-Was it the AFL Grand Final?

-I did the State of Origin.

0:40:510:40:55

-The State of Origin! That's...

-What's that?

0:40:550:40:57

Which is 40,000 Aussie, drunk Aussie men, very, very aggressive,

0:40:570:41:03

macho men and for the mid-game entertainment,

0:41:030:41:09

some guy, some comedian booked James Blunt

0:41:090:41:11

to sing to 40,000 people You're Beautiful.

0:41:110:41:14

# You're beautiful... #

0:41:140:41:16

-How did it go, James?

-I'm still alive, but only just.

0:41:170:41:22

-Did it turn ugly?

-I wore the kind of home team's top, just to...

0:41:220:41:26

-Well done.

-Just to try and, yeah, which I think was like a shield.

0:41:260:41:30

Cos which one did you do, Hugh?

0:41:300:41:32

I did the Bledisloe Cup so Australia-New Zealand at rugby,

0:41:320:41:35

that was the first thing I did, yeah,

0:41:350:41:37

singing the national anthem and I did the Rugby League Grand Final,

0:41:370:41:40

but both terrifying, absolutely...

0:41:400:41:42

I remember the...

0:41:420:41:43

I remember being introduced at the Bledisloe Cup

0:41:430:41:47

as "a star of stage and screen".

0:41:470:41:49

I'd done one stage show and one TV show at the time.

0:41:490:41:52

"Ladies and gentlemen, star of stage and screen, Mr Hugh Jackman!" Boo!

0:41:520:41:57

I realised I was stood in front of the Great Southern Stand

0:41:570:42:00

with 30,000 New Zealanders booing me

0:42:000:42:02

and the Australian captain standing next to me goes,

0:42:020:42:05

"You better bloody show 'em, mate."

0:42:050:42:07

No pressure! Anyway, yeah.

0:42:070:42:09

But you went for it.

0:42:090:42:11

I so went for it, it's...

0:42:110:42:12

If you ever see the tape of it, I finish singing.

0:42:120:42:17

I'm still singing and they cut off, the tape finishes,

0:42:170:42:21

they cut off the microphone and I was like...

0:42:210:42:23

HE MOUTHS

0:42:230:42:25

And I'm still singing. I've never been more nervous in my life.

0:42:250:42:28

You're right, an Australian crowd, if you do...

0:42:280:42:30

They take it very seriously.

0:42:300:42:32

Meatloaf isn't allowed back in the country

0:42:320:42:33

after his performance.

0:42:330:42:35

I have to ask, Ian,

0:42:350:42:36

have you ever sung before a national sporting event?

0:42:360:42:39

Not yet, I haven't, no.

0:42:410:42:42

Sign him up!

0:42:420:42:44

I did perform in front of 50,000 people

0:42:450:42:50

at the Gay Games in New York.

0:42:500:42:55

-Did you sing?

-But I didn't sing, no.

0:42:550:42:58

I had a very good line.

0:42:580:43:00

I said, "My name's Sir Ian McKellen, but you can call me Sir-Ian-a!"

0:43:000:43:04

That went down very well.

0:43:070:43:08

-Do you think that would go down in Australia...?

-Yes.

-Oh, sure!

0:43:080:43:12

-Oh, yes!

-Give it a whirl!

0:43:120:43:14

I mean, all Australian men are gay, aren't they?

0:43:140:43:18

There's always a little bit of ting of gay about them.

0:43:180:43:21

This is a minefield.

0:43:240:43:26

James Blunt, are you going on tour?

0:43:270:43:29

Ah, yes!

0:43:290:43:31

You can all thank me later.

0:43:330:43:35

Where are you going? Tell us, we're interested.

0:43:350:43:38

I'm going on tour round the UK in November.

0:43:380:43:40

Tickets are on sale now, Graham, but I'll get you a freebie.

0:43:400:43:43

Aww, that's very good of you!

0:43:430:43:44

And can we just say, James Blunt working on his birthday.

0:43:440:43:47

Happy birthday, James Blunt!

0:43:470:43:49

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:43:490:43:51

-ALL SING:

-# Happy birthday to you

0:43:530:43:57

# Happy birthday to you

0:43:570:44:00

-AUDIENCE JOIN IN

-# Happy birthday, dear James

0:44:000:44:04

# Happy birthday to you! #

0:44:040:44:07

The harmonies! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:44:070:44:11

Very good! That's nearly it for tonight.

0:44:120:44:16

Before we go, just time for a visit to the Big Red Chair. Who's there?

0:44:160:44:19

-Hello!

-Hi, what's your name?

-Jenny.

-Lovely. And what do you do, Jenny?

0:44:190:44:23

I'm a wildlife veterinarian.

0:44:230:44:26

Well, now, we've never had one of those on the show before.

0:44:260:44:29

So, do you just go and look for sick animals?

0:44:290:44:32

Yes, OK.

0:44:330:44:34

That's Jenny. She's great with animals,

0:44:340:44:36

she's very good with animals. They love her.

0:44:360:44:38

-Where are you based?

-At the moment, at London Zoo.

0:44:380:44:41

Oh, right, so they're quite easy to catch there.

0:44:410:44:44

Not so hard!

0:44:470:44:48

"I wonder if I'll see any animals today."

0:44:510:44:53

All right, Jenny, off you go with your story.

0:44:560:44:58

I'd just started working

0:44:580:45:00

at a chimpanzee sanctuary in Sierra Leone.

0:45:000:45:02

And an old hand was showing me around and introduced me to Chippie,

0:45:020:45:07

a young male chimp, and she said,

0:45:070:45:10

"Chippie loves rubber boots, wellies,"

0:45:100:45:13

and I was wearing some beautiful flowered wellies that very day

0:45:130:45:17

so I kind of put them towards the cage

0:45:170:45:20

and an expression of delight came on Chippie's face

0:45:200:45:23

and he rushed over and I was like, "He really does like wellies!"

0:45:230:45:29

And he crouched down and immediately started

0:45:290:45:32

masturbating himself on the sole of my wellies.

0:45:320:45:34

I'm going to flip her!

0:45:350:45:37

It was in!

0:45:390:45:41

Everything about that story was hilarious.

0:45:440:45:47

Chippie the chimp - really,

0:45:480:45:50

you're running a sanctuary

0:45:500:45:52

and that's all you can come up with? Chippie?

0:45:520:45:54

Is it the only one you've got?

0:45:540:45:56

-OK, we have one more. One more, here we go. Hello!

-Hi!

0:45:580:46:01

Hi, what's your name?

0:46:010:46:02

-SLIGHT LISP:

-Fliss.

-Fliss?

0:46:020:46:03

Yeah, terrible name with a lisp.

0:46:030:46:04

No...

0:46:040:46:06

-Great opening(!)

-Fliss is your actual name?

0:46:080:46:11

-Well, Felicity.

-OK, but you went with Fliss, OK.

0:46:110:46:15

All right, Fliss, off you go with your story.

0:46:150:46:16

So, me and my sister were driving to Scotland and I needed the toilet

0:46:160:46:21

so we stopped at a service station.

0:46:210:46:23

I ran in, I went into the first cubicle

0:46:230:46:25

and there was a massive big floating shit in the toilet.

0:46:250:46:29

Patrick's right here!

0:46:290:46:31

I'm so sorry!

0:46:310:46:32

-Anyway, I left...

-I remember you!

0:46:340:46:36

From that angle.

0:46:380:46:40

But, yes, I walked straight out and went into the next cubicle

0:46:400:46:44

and went for a wee and then I stood washing my hands

0:46:440:46:46

and a lady walked in when I was washing my hands,

0:46:460:46:48

I caught her eye in the reflection

0:46:480:46:51

and she walked into the first cubicle,

0:46:510:46:52

obviously saw the big shit, Patrick, in the toilet...

0:46:520:46:55

-Oh, dear.

-Patrick!

0:46:550:46:57

And then walked out so I just casually went up to her, like,

0:46:570:47:00

"Oh, I did that," meaning I had walked in and walked out, but...

0:47:000:47:04

I did not... Like, really proud...

0:47:060:47:10

-That was a good story!

-Good story!

-You can walk, well done.

0:47:100:47:13

CHEERING AND APLAUSE

0:47:130:47:15

AUDIENCE DROWNS OUT COMMENT

0:47:150:47:18

Well done, everyone.

0:47:180:47:20

If you'd like to join us on the show

0:47:200:47:22

and have a go in that Red Chair, you can.

0:47:220:47:24

Just contact us via our website at this very address.

0:47:240:47:27

That is it for tonight.

0:47:270:47:29

Please say a huge thank you to our guests - Mr James Blunt!

0:47:290:47:31

-CHEERING

-Thank you.

0:47:310:47:33

Patrick Stewart! CHEERING

0:47:330:47:37

Ian McKellen! CHEERING

0:47:370:47:39

And Hugh Jackman! CHEERING

0:47:390:47:42

We're taking a short break, but we'll be back in April.

0:47:430:47:46

Do join me next week, though,

0:47:460:47:47

for a look back at some of the highlights from this series.

0:47:470:47:50

I'll see you then. Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!

0:47:500:47:52

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

0:47:520:47:54

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